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While many college students are dreaming of spring break this month, eight University of Miami law students will be spending the week working for free. Alexandra Fizz, who will be traveling the state helping undocumented youth, and trip organizer Amanda Roesch spoke about their project. (Published Wednesday, Mar 6, 2013)

Updated at 10:30 PM EST on Wednesday, Mar 6, 2013

While many college students are dreaming of spring break this month, eight University of Miami law students will be skipping the beach and spending the week working for free.

"Not only is this a great opportunity to educate the community," explained second-year law student Alexandra Fizz, "it's also a great opportunity for us to expand our legal skills."

Deferred Action for Dreamers Begins

Starting Wednesday, young, undocumented immigrants will be able to apply for temporary legal status under the "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals" (DACA) Plan passed by President Barack Obama in June. (Published Wednesday, Aug 15, 2012)

Fizz will be traveling the state helping undocumented youth apply for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, a temporary status available to people age 29 and under who are in the U.S. illegally and meet certain requirements. They need to be living in the United States since at least 2007, have completed or being enrolled in school, and have no serious criminal convictions.

"I know how the struggles can be without status and having to live in the shadows," said Fizz, who says her own cousins were deported to Chile for being in the U.S. illegally.

Jeb Bush Talks About 2016

Jeb Bush — the man many in the GOP want to see run for president in 2016 — appears to be reversing his long-time stance on immigration with a new book on immigration out Tuesday. But Politico's Kevin Robillard noted that Bush's comments to Chuck Todd on NBC's "Nightly News" didn't appear to mesh with comments he made to the "Today" show's Matt Lauer Monday morning. "I think we need comprehensive reform, and if there is a path to citizenship that has enough of a realization that we have to respect the rule of law, then so be it," Bush told Todd. But while he supports a path to citizenship for legal immigrants, Bush had suggested to Lauer that he wants to limit those who come illegally to permanent resident status. That position appears to reflect a change of heart, Politico writes, from the path to citizenship approach Bush endorsed in a Wall Street Journal op-ed in January. Freely acknowledging that he is considering running in 2016, Bush stressed to Todd that he believes his Republican Party needs to remind voters of what it supports — not what it opposes. (Published Tuesday, Mar 5, 2013)

"That's why I decided to go to law school and be an immigration attorney," she said.

"They are young children, young people like the rest of us that have grown up with us, have gone to school with us," said Amanda Roesch, who organized the trip through the University of Miami School of Law along with partners at Florida International University and advocates from FL DREAM, the Florida Immigrant Coalition, among others.

The team leaves for Naples on Monday. They plan to make stops in Orlando, Lakeland, and Gainesville.